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Video and Audio: The Three Tenors: War Is Over David Vine on Talk Nation Radio Calculator of Trade Offs: CostofWar.com Articles: A Global Marshall Plan A Nonviolent Insurgency for Climate Protection? By Jeremy Brecher A Global Rescue Plan: Excerpt from […]

Videos: Tax Dollars at Work Graphics: National Priorities Project: Discretionary Spending 2014 Articles: Tomgram: Chris Hellman, $1.2 Trillion for National Security The Telegraph: Cost to US of Iraq and Afghan Wars Could Hit $6 Trillion The U.S. Employment Effects of […]

Direct Expenses: War has a huge direct financial cost, the vast majority of which is in funds spent on the preparation for war — or what’s thought of as ordinary, non-war military spending. Very roughly, the world spends $2 trillion […]

Video and Audio: Robert Parry on Talk Nation Radio John Whitehead on Talk Nation Radio Gregory D. Foster on Talk Nation Radio Shahid Buttar on Talk Nation Radio Articles: What We’ve Forgotten: Excerpt from “When the World Outlawed War” by […]

We’re often told that wars are fought for “freedom.” But when a wealthy nation fights a war against a poor (if often resource-rich) nation halfway around the globe, among the goals is not actually to prevent that poor nation from […]

Watch or read about the NoWar2017: War and the Environment Conference. The banished thrush, the homeless rook Share now the human exile’s woe. Mourns not that forest felled, which took Three hundred years to grow? —S. Gertrude Ford A major […]

There are more effective tools than war for protection. War planning leads to wars. War making provokes danger. And war’s weapons risk intentional or accidental apocalypse. War planning leads to wars. “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” said Theodore Roosevelt, who […]

Video and Audio: Rooj Alwazir on Talk Nation Radio Alice Slater on Talk Nation Radio Bruce Gagnon on Talk Nation Radio Articles: U.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds U.S. Drone Program Proves Counterproductive on […]

Thank you for signing the declaration of peace or another pro-peace petition! Local organizations that have signed can also become World BEYOND War affiliates. Do that here. Anyone who would like to can (with our help) begin creating a new […]